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“If you tell anyone, you’ll get in trouble.”

-Age 11. Next door neighbor’s grandson.

“Turn around & pull your pants down. I’ll make you.”

-Age 13. First “friend” at new school.

“We never hang out anymore! I miss you! What happened?!”

-Age 20. From “best friend” at age 13. She told the school we had sex & I was pregnant out of jealousy. High school was living hell.

“But I love you.”

-Age 16-20. On-again, off-again “boyfriend”. It was just for the sex.

“Keep screaming. Nobody’s going to come save you.”

-Age 17. Rapist #1, at the bar where I worked.

“So are we gonna have sex or not?”

-Age 18. Ex-boyfriend, rapist #2, in my 1st year dorm room under pretense of “reconciliation”.

“She was a fucking crazy bitch.”

-Age 18. Ex-boyfriend’s best friend after a confrontation. 

“That was good. You love it when I choke you like that.”

-Age 19. Abusive ex-boyfriend, the 1st time we “had sex”. It was rape.

“Sex can look like love if you don’t know what love looks like.” - Rebecca Walker, author

NOW I DO.

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If you watch tonight’s SVU episode, be sure to take a picture of the scene where Project Unbreakable is referenced and use the Instagram/Tumblr hashtag #projectunbreakable or our Twitter handle @ProjUnbreakable to tag us! We will randomly choose two people to win two bracelets and two stickers each. Just make sure your accounts aren’t private! :) The episode airs at 9pm EST/8pm CST on NBC.

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Project Unbreakable is referenced on this week’s SVU episode! Click through for the full preview.

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projectunbreakable:

Project Unbreakable is excited to announce that we are partnering with several organizations for a special event in June! Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, founder of the Trauma Stewardship Institute and author of Trauma Stewardship, will host a day long event in New York City on June 5th, 2013. Laura, a longtime trauma worker, uses a mix of personal insight, research, personal stories, and countless New Yorker cartoons to examine the ways working & witnessing trauma can affect us.

Instead of the usual rate of $90, we are offering a partner rate of $60 from now until the date of the event. To sign up, please contact us at projectunbreakable@gmail.com. This day is open to anyone who bears witness - social workers, foster parents, nurses, feminist advocates, environmentalists, domestic violence/child abuse shelter volunteers, firefighters, etc. (Or anyone planning on going into any of these fields.)

We at Project Unbreakable are extremely passionate about Laura’s work; in order to take care of others, we need to learn how to take care of ourselves first.

(Please consider reblogging/sharing/Facebooking/tweeting/etc!)

This is important.

just another heads up! june 5 will be here before we know it. the rest of the project unbreakable team & i are so excited for this event.

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